Immunization form incomplete - ack!

my daughter arrived at summer orientation and didn’t have the records. So she went to the orientation and I got on the phone with the department of health. When we’d moved to Florida 2.5 years earlier I was required to go to the dept of health to get a special form filled out even though I had their records. Then the Fl health dept questioned the type of vaccines she’d had because they were given in the NICU and no one put down DTaP or just DTP or whatever. I think we split the difference and they gave her one new shot and let the other go (she was 15). Then they started on her sister, who was adopted… They didn’t like that her chickenpox shots were given at 2.5 and 4.5 and not at 1 and 5. Well, I didn’t HAVE her at 1, and she went to K at 4.5 and they required a second shot for K (and I think she had the chickenpox before she came to me). Geez.

Anyway, they found her vaccination record attached to her hs transcripts. Who knew?

And the Fl dept of health would no longer talk to me because daughter had turned 18.

You might also check with the dept of health in the state you were vaccinated in. Although my kids’ records weren’t entered when they were vaccinated, as some time after they were born the state law required it and I know their pediatrician’s office did a project where they entered them all (some time in the 2000’s). Now I can get their records (well, they can but not me) from Colorado or Florida.

What those won’t include are those of us who had chickenpox, mumps, measles.

Good luck. I fear you have a sore arm in your future.

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